What Does Your Picture Look Like?
Posted October 25th, 2007 by adminBecause of cutbacks in school programs, it has been said that schools have become regimented and structured; often missing out on tapping into the creative side of the students. At Simply Charly, it is our goal to offer a new and different portal for students and teachers to explore historical figures. How exciting would it be to pull up the Simply Charly Web site, completely devoted to favorite historical figures, after studying them in class? Simply Charly’s Web sites come complete with awesome caricatures, quiz questions about each icon’s life, electronic postcards that could be sent to others, and other exciting information that could be downloaded and referenced again and again.
Simply Charly is designed to serve as a complement to our teachers and educators and offers a way to stir the students’ creative minds. We provide students and other absorbers of knowledge a new and different way to gather information on historical icons by supplying access to videos, audio clips, and other materials that can be used to supplement the curriculum received through regular learning environments.
Speaking of creative minds, Sir Ken Robinson makes a very compelling argument that students have all been educated to be good workers, rather than creative thinkers. He believes that a radical rethink of our education system needs to be done; one that cultivates creativity and acknowledges that everyone does not learn the same way.
Click on the video to watch this very enlightening presentation.
I couldn’t agree more that people learn differently, individual to individual. One thing that always irritated me in school, high school in particular, was the lip service teachers paid to this fact with out really doing anything to change their rigid class structures. Maybe we’d get an optional extra credit assignment we weren’t really interested in, but that was about it.
Comment by maculate — April 10, 2009 @ 5:39 pm